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Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 1 Symposium Information .................................................................................................................... 2 Emergency contact details ............................................................................................................. 2 Program ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Venue and Getting There................................................................................................................... 4 Wifi ............................................................................................................................................... 4 Parking .......................................................................................................................................... 4 Public Transport ............................................................................................................................ 4 Taxis .............................................................................................................................................. 4 Abstracts ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Biographies ..................................................................................................................................... 13 Creative Conversations 2017: Looking Forward/Looking Back .......................................................... 23 Michael Farrell’s I Love Poetry Launch ............................................................................................. 24 A Little Tour of Fremantle ................................................................................................................ 25 Fremantle Attractions...................................................................................................................... 26 Where to Eat in Freo ....................................................................................................................... 28 Introduction CAWC Symposium: Dialogue 3 LOOKING FORWARD/LOOKING BACK 25 – 26 October, 2017 ‘The old people used glass and steel soon as they saw it, just like they saw the use of ships and rifles, and would shin up a telegraph pole to see if they could listen in. But sometimes it’s good to know how they did things also; to put these things in a line, to go to and fro.’ (Kim Scott, Taboo, Picador 2017) Quote from artist Yang Yongliang (see image below) – “I’m beginning to realise that I can use the newest techniques to work with one of the oldest art forms.” (White Rabbit Gallery website) The theme of the third China-Australia Writing Centre’s Symposium, a collaboration between Fudan and Curtin Universities, is “Looking Forward/ Looking Back”. The question to be answered is: how do Chinese and Australian writers and creators, now and in the past, differently approach problems of positioning, distance and perspective in relation to the sociocultural past and the future? In particular, what dialogues and tensions arise in environments of rapid or tumultuous change and what pressure does this put on materials available to creators to respond to such change? How are traditional materials, forms and genres repurposed, recycled, and revisited? As in the framing text by Kim Scott and image by Yang Yongliang, the past is not something safely or stably tucked away but always imminent and always dynamically shaping in relation to both the present and the future. These works announce that to make things is always to be in dialogue with the past, both its conceptions and materials. To quote from Scott, how do we ‘go to and fro’? Yang Yongliang, Infinite Landscape (2011) White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney 1 Symposium Information Convenor Dr Lucy Dougan Symposium Support Paul Clifford and Julie Lunn Speakers From Curtin University: Dr Moshe Bernstein – China Australia Writing Centre Dr Susan Bradley Smith - Media, Culture and the Creative Arts Paul Clifford - Media, Culture and the Creative Arts Dr Matthew Chrulew – Centre for Culture and Technology Dr Lucy Dougan – China Australia Writing Centre Dr Jo Jones - Media, Culture and the Creative Arts Daniel Juckes - Media, Culture and the Creative Arts Prof John Kinsella – Media, Culture and the Creative Arts Dr Christina Lee - Media, Culture and the Creative Arts Liu Yuanhang - Media, Culture and the Creative Arts Carol Millner - Media, Culture and the Creative Arts Dr Rachel Robertson – Media, Culture and the Creative Arts Dr Elizabeth Tan - Media, Culture and the Creative Arts From Fudan University: Assistant Prof Bao Huiyi - English Department A/Prof Chen Liang - English Department Prof Li Ding-jun (Hai An) - College of Foreign Languages and Literature Prof Tan Zheng - College of Foreign Languages and Literature Prof Wang Hongtu - Chinese Department Dr Zhang Yiwei - Chinese Department Invited Guests: A/Prof Boey Kim Cheng - Nanyang Technological University Fan Iris Xing – University of Western Australia Dr Michael Farrell – Melbourne University Prof Helena Grehan – Murdoch University Prof Paul Hetherington - University of Canberra A/Prof Wang Yao (Xia Jia) - Xi’an Jiaotong University Dr Wayne Price – University of Aberdeen Dr Tracy Ryan – Westerly Centre, University of Western Australia Emergency contact details Lucy Dougan: 0430 369 461 Paul Clifford: 0420 594 459 Julie Lunn: 0429 169 376 2 Program Day 1: Wednesday, 25 October 2017 Time Session Chair Speakers/Presenters 8.30am – Welcome to Country – Ingrid Cumming 9.00am Welcome – Prof Steve Mickler 9.00am - Paper Session 1 Dr Andrew Cameron Dr Matt Chrulew and A/Prof 10.00am Wang Yao 10.00am - Morning Tea 10.30am 10.30am - Creative Session 1 Dr Rachel Robertson Dr Wayne Price 11.30am 11.30am - Paper Session 2 Prof Baden Offord Prof Paul Hetherington, Dr 12.30pm Rachel Robertson and Assistant Prof Bao Huiyi 12.30pm - Lunch 1.30pm 1.30pm - Creative Session 2 Dr Lucy Dougan Poetry Translation Panel 2.30pm 2.30pm - Afternoon tea 3.00pm 3.00pm - Creative session 3 Dr Deborah Hunn Dr Elizabeth Tan and A/Prof 4.00pm Boey Kim Cheng 4.00pm - Paper session 3 Prof Tim Dolin Dr Zhang Yiwei and Dr Moshe 5.00pm Bernstein 6.30pm – Michael Farrell book launch at the Fremantle Navy Club – (see details on page 29.) 8.30pm Day 2: Thursday, 26 October 2017 Time Session Chair Speakers/Presenters 9.00am - Paper session 1 Dr Christina Chau Prof Helena Grehan 10.00am 10.00am - Paper session 2 Dr Susan Bradley Smith Dr Christina Lee and Dr Jo Jones 11.00am 11.00am - Morning Tea 11.30am 11.30am - Creative Session 1 Prof Liz Byrski Prof Tan Zheng and Prof Li Ding- 12.30pm jun (Hai An) 12.30pm - Lunch 1.30pm 1.30pm - Paper Session 3 Prof Michael Keane A/Prof Boey Kim Cheng and Prof 2.30pm Wang Hongtu 2.30pm - Paper Session 4 Prof Tan Zheng A/Prof Chen Liang and Dr 3.30pm Michael Farrell 3.30pm - Afternoon tea 4.00pm 4.00pm - Postgrad session Dr David Whish-Wilson Paul Clifford, Daniel Juckes, 5.30pm Carol Millner, Liu Yuanhang 3 Venue and Getting There The symposium will be held in the Admiralty Gulf room (marked in red on the map below) at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle. Address: 46-54 Marine Terrace, Fremantle Phone: 08 9432 4000 Wifi Free Wifi is available at the Esplanade. Once connected to Rydges-EVENT, open a browser and you will be directed to enter an access code. Login: event Password: event Parking There are several parking options available at and nearby the Esplanade. The Esplanade have a special valet parking rate of $20 per person. Please notify the valet that you are with the Curtin group. The Esplanade also has parking across the road for $11 per day. Alternatively, Collie Street has secure parking for around $22 per day. If you are a Curtin staff member you can use your CelloPark app for street parking in Fremantle. Unfortunately CAWC is unable to reimburse people for the cost of parking. You may be able to do this through your own school/area. Public Transport Buses and trains service Fremantle. For information please visit the Transperth website. Taxis Swan Taxis: 13 13 30 Black and White Cabs: 13 32 22 4 Abstracts Dr Moshe BERNSTEIN The Fictionalization of ‘The Great Advisor’: Problematizing Presentism, Position and Politics ‘The Great Advisor’ was the moniker given to the 17th century Chinese Jew Zhao Yingcheng (1619- 1657), who rose to prominence during the volatile Ming-Qing dynastic transition. Zhao, who hailed from a wealthy family and was conversant in scriptural Hebrew, played a major role within the Yicileye (一赐乐业, ‘Israelite’) community of Kaifeng. Apart from references in the synagogal stelae and Chinese gazetteers, the biographical information on Zhao Yingcheng is sparse. He would have witnessed the acute famine caused by the ‘Little Ice Age’ as well as the lethal destruction of his hometown by flooding during the 1642 Siege of Kaifeng in the peasant rebellion against the corrupt Ming rulers. In 1646, he attained the ultimate jinshi rank and was appointed Minister of Justice by the Manchu regent, Dorgon, tasked with implementing the controversial tonsure decree. Two years later he was sent to Fujian to quell the wanton violence of warlords financed by the wealthy buccaneer and Ming loyalist, Koxinga. In 1654 Zhao returned to Kaifeng to mourn the death of his father.